Against ACC Fees

Back-pay ACC Levies for a bike that was not used - ARE You Kidding Government and ACC

From John:

My Moto Guzzi has been down for a year or 3 now and the reg has been on hold. About the time it was due to have it's hold renewed (which should not be necessary anyway) just before the Christmas before last, I had a heart attack. The subsequent re-plumbing , re-valving and recuperation there from had me off work and basically out of it for 7 months. By the time I got myself together enough to deal with such things as the back log of letter etc. the rego was dead. Now govt. has come to the party to the extent that as long as I back pay a reg for a year by the 17th of Feb I can reinstate my registration. But why do I have to pay the ACC component of this for a time when the bike could not have been ridden and I was incapable of riding it ? It's not fair, and not right. This has to change.

Here is an example that highlights the extreme unfairness (downright ripoff) of the current ACC fees attached to Motorcycle registration/licensing.

In about April this year (2010) the registration of my bike was up for renewal, so I relicensed it for 12 months.

The fee for a 750 is now about $517, and the ACC portion of that is about $470, roughly.

A month later the bike got stolen.

Insurance paid out and I bought a new bike, which had the rego on hold.

So here I was having to pay $517 all over again just two months later.

I can accept having to pay the license fee portion again, which is about $35, but I've already paid for a years worth of ACC premiums, $475.